From: joseph collins <joec_49@...>
Date: 2008-06-07T07:59:09+09:00
Subject: Re: A complete guide for Ruby Progammers

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I would like it - I am an experienced programmer but new to Ruby

Joe

> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:09:22 +0900
> From: mcmohd@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: A complete guide for Ruby Progammers
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
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> Friends,
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> We had put lot of effort to bring this English Ruby tutorial online but=20
> instead of any appreciation people started blaming us. I found out "Ruby=
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> in a Nutshell" on the net and if you see itself is a copy of standard=20
> ruby manual.
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> I found few pieces copied from this book and according to my fellow=20
> writer he found this content interesting on the net and tried to=20
> incorporate here. So finally I tried to remove that content.
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> I've gone through 8 books while compiling this content. We are not a=20
> research scholars who do R&D and then write a book. Like other authors,=20
> we also took many things as reference while writing this tutorial.
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> Anyway, if you did not like it then we are sorry....but I can say there=20
> are few books who gives you clear understanding on Ruby-on-Rails,=20
> Ruby/TK etc. if you have one then pls let me know.
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> Thanks
> Mohtashim
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> Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Lyle Johnson <lyle@lylejohnson.name>=20
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Ron Fox wrote:
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> >>> Stealing from  yourself is not plagiarism.
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> >> No, but stealing from other authors' work is. So unless the authors of
> >> "Progamming Ruby" and "Ruby in a Nutshell" have approved this "reuse" =
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> >> their work, there's a problem.
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> > Yes, there's a problem - however, assuming this is actually edited
> > into a new coherent whole (I didn't see if there were new bits, it
> > looked familiar from many years back) there's also some amount of work
> > done.  Assuming the author is misguided rather than malicious, we
> > should applaud him for that work, even if he's using sources wrongly,
> > and then try to help him do things in a way that's more generally
> > accepted in a copyright-focused world.
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> > Eivind.
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